Panicum.] CXLIV. GRAMINE E. 485 
and distant, scarcely 1 line long, obtuse, glabrous. Outer glume very 
short, brood, truncate, nerveless ; 2nd and 3rd glumes equal, 3- or 5- 
nerved, both empty. Fruiting glume smooth and shining.—F. Muell. 
Fragm. viii. 193. 
nsland. Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, F. Mueller, Bailey ; Cleveland Bay, 
; South Queensland, Hartmann. 
PS. ales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Mrs. Calvert and 
others; Ash Island, Scott. 
Quee 
Gulliver 
N. Australia. Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 264. 
Queensland. Daintree River, Fitzalan. 
P. minutum, R. Br. Prod 191, from Endeavour River, Banks and Solander, is 
founded upon a very small slender annual of 2 or 3 in. inc uding the panicle, which 
appears to be an accidentally small depauperated state of P. trichoides. 
43. P. hermaphroditum, Steud. Syn. Glum. i. 67.—-Stems 
creeping and rooting at the base, ascending to 1 ft. or more, rather 
slender. Leaves spreading, lanceolate or almost linear, sprinkled 
r3 
and gibbous, the 3rd rather longer and straight. Fruiting glume very 
hard and smooth, broad and very gibbous. . Palea al : 
Projecting laterally from the glume more than in any other species.— 
- pilipes, Nees in Pl. Wight, Exs. n. 2343. 
eensland. Daintree River, Fitzalan. 
This species, which is also in Ceylon, the East Indian Peninsula and the Malayan 
a ar te prs bé quis distónot from the P. trigonum, Retz, with 
Which it is united in Thw. Enum. 359. Po 
44. P. marginatum, R. Br. Prod. 190.—A rather slender but 
often rigid grass, decumbent brauching and often rooting at the base, 
